Born: February 19, 1955, Oakland, CA.
High School: St. Mary’s College Prep, Peralta Park, CA.
College: Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
STUDIED WITH
Bobby Bradford, Bob Barrett, Arthur Blythe, Charles Tyler, Cecil Taylor,
Sun Ra, Margaret Cohn, Archie Shepp, Stanley Crouch, Albert Murray,
Amiri Baraka and Catherine Murray.
PERFORMED WITH
Max Roach, The World Saxophone Quartet, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones,
Hank Jones, Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis, Irma Thomas, The Illusions,
The Natural Four, The Notations of Soul, Jack DeJohnette, Woody Shaw,
Jacky Byard, Tete Montoliu, Randy Weston, Astor Piazzola, Taj Mahal,
Eddie Harris, Hector Lavoe, Ray Barretto, Potato, Jimmy Hamilton, Allen
Toussaint, James ‘Blood’ Ulmer, Don Pullen, Bill Cosby, Pharoah Sanders,
Roy Haynes, Eddie Blackwell, Billy Higgins, John Hicks, Sun-Ra, Archie Shepp, Stan Getz, Clifford Jordan, Dave Burrell, James
Newton, Stanley Crouch, Butch Morris, George Arvanitas, Aki Takase,
Lester Bowie and many other great musicians and artists.
-
AWARDS
- 1988 Grammy Award for Best Performance on a Jazz Recording Blues for Coltrane
- 1986 The Bird Award presented at the Northsea Jazz Festival, Den Haag,
Holland - Best International Musician
- 1986 Mass Council for the Arts Commission for Big-Band
- 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1991 Winner of Danish Jazzpar Prize
-
PERFORMANCES
- Avery Fisher Hall, 1983
- The Church of the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy, 1987
- Jazz Under The Sky, Youmiriland, Tokyo, Japan, 1987
- Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, 1989
- The Berlin Jazz Festival, The Nancy Festival, The Zurich Festival
and many other Jazz Festival and Universities in Europe and the
United States
Biographic info courtesy of Saudades Tourneen
-
DISCOGRAPHY
- As a leader:
- Flowers for Albert, 1976 (India Navigation)
- Low Class Cospirancy, 1976 (Adelphi)
- Penthouse Jazz, 1977 (Circle)
- Solomon’s Sons with James Newton, 1977 (Circle)
- Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, Vol.1 & 2, 1977 (India Navigation)
- Sur-Real Saxophone, 1978 (Horo)
- Conceptual Saxophone, 1978 (Cadillac)
- Interboogieology, 1978 (Black Saint)
- The London Concert, 1978 (Cadillac)
- 3D Family, 1978 (Hat Hut)
- Sweet Lovely, 1979 (Black Saint)
- Ming, 1980 (Black Saint)
- Home, 1981 (Black Saint)
- Murray’s Staps, 1982 (Black Saint)
- Morning Song, 1983 (Black Saint)
- Live at Sweet Basil, Vol.1, 1984 (Black Saint)
- Live at Sweet Basil, Vol.2, 1984 (Black Saint)
- Children, 1984 (Black Saint)
- New Life, 1985 (Black Saint)
- I Want To Talk About You, 1986 (Black Saint)
- David Murray, 1986 (DIW)
- The Hill, 1986 (Black Saint)
- The Healers with Randy Weston, 1987 (Black Saint)
- Deep River, 1988 (DIW)
- Ming’s Samba, 1988 (Portrait)
- As a sideman:
- Synthesis: Sentiments, 1976 (Ra)
- World Saxophone Quartet: Point of No Return, 1977 (Moers)
- World Saxophone Quartet: Steppin, 1978 (Black Saint)
- Jack DeJohnette: Special Edition, 1979 (ECM)
- Live at the Moers Festival, 1979 (Moers)
- World Saxophone Quartet: W.S.Q., 1980 (Black Saint)
- World Saxophone Quartet: Revue, 1980 (Black Saint)
- James Blood Ulmer: Are You Glad To Be In America?, 1980 (Artists House)
- James Blood Ulmer: No Wave, 1980 (Moers)
- James Blood Ulmer: Free Lancing, 1981 (Columbia)
- World Saxophone Quartet: Live In Zurich, 1981 (Black Saint)
- Clarinet Summit: In Concert at the Public Theater, 1982
(India Navigation)
- Clarinet Summit: In Concert at the Public Theater, Volume 2, 1982 (India Navigation)
- Jack DeJohnette: Album, Album, 1984 (ECM)
- World Saxophone Quartet: Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1985 (Black Saint)
- World Saxophone Quartet: Plays Duke Ellington, 1986 (Nonesuch)
- World Saxophone Quartet: Dances and Ballads, 1987 (Nonesuch)
- Clarinet Summit: Southern Bells, 1987 (Black Saint)
- World Saxophone Quartet: Rhythm and Blues, 1988 (Nonesuch)
|
